If you're planning on spending time outdoors this summer, you'll find that the insect repellent aisle of your local pharmacy offers a dazzling array of options to protect you from hungry bugs.
Hardcore DEET-based sprays like Off! Deep Woods promise to ward off ticks, mosquitoes, flies, chiggers, and gnats for an entire day. Other products—such as Avon Skin So Soft Bug Guard Plus—contain sunscreen in addition to insect repellent. There are plenty of plant-based potions—Aromaflage claims that its proprietary blend of "citrus fruit, warm cedarwood, and silken vanilla" makes for "a sophisticated, uplifting fragrance that also repels insects."
So do any of them get the job done? And do they cause problems for more than just bugs? [READ MORE]
WATCH: Congressmen Defend Repairing Oil Pipes With Trash Bags and Duct Tape
Congressmen who are angry at US Fish and Wildlife Service enforcement of environmental regulations were not outraged by an activist's photos showing oil pipes and tanks repaired with duct tape and trash bags.
In fact, Reps. Vance McAllister and John Fleming, both Republicans from Louisiana, berated a witness last week for illustrating abuses in wildlife refuges with photos of oil-slicked ponds; abandoned, leaky drums; and even plastic bags and duct tape used for as long as a year to stave off spills in Louisiana national wildlife refuges. [READ MORE]
MORE ENVIRONMENTAL & HEALTH COVERAGE
The ice sheets covering Antarctica and Greenland are incredibly massive—so large, in fact, that gravitational attraction pulls the surrounding ocean toward them.
This is not good news for humanity. As the ice sheets melt due to global warming, not only do they raise the sea level directly; they also exert a weaker gravitational pull on the surrounding ocean. So water sloshes back toward the continents, where we all live. [READ MORE]
Forecasters predict that billowing blooms of toxic algae will overrun Lake Erie this summer, making 2014 yet another year in which the lake looks like a big, slimy putting green. [READ MORE]
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